Iron Lady as she is popularly known by neighbours,
Ngozi Okoye, who hails from Nsuka in Enugu State, has built a fearsome reputation for herself as she is always engaging in one fight or the other around her neighbourhood in Federal Housing Lugbe, Abuja.
The single mother of one finally landed herself in police net recently when
she killed a co-tenant, identified as
Kemi.
It was said that whoever got into a fight with her usually come out with sad tales of sorrow,
tears and blood. But, unlike many of her victims, Kemi could not survive to tell her bitter story in the hands of Ngozi, the Iron lady. In fact, most of the neighbours never got to know her real name. They refer to her as iron lady and she acknowledged the name with pride.
But if Kemi (now late) had a premonition of what was to befall her on that fateful Monday; she probably would have done everything possible to avert it. But she didn’t, and it cost her-her life. What started like a usually quarrel between neighbours, soon escalated into a bloody end which left the quiet community in shock.
Eye witnesses told LEADERSHIP that trouble started when Kemi put on
her generator set and went out leaving her 7-year old son at home, but Ngozi, who lived next door to Kemi’s one room apartment, complained that the fume from the generator was disturbing her in her room. But rather than wait for Kemi to return, Ngozi who was said to be highly temperamental decided to put off the generator herself.
An eye witness who gave her name as
Blessing Samuel said: “She (Kemi) went to buy something for her child. And Iron lady said the
smoke from Kemi’s generator set was entering her room so she decided put off the generator. But when Kemi came back and saw that her generator was off, she asked Ngozi who put off her generator set and Ngozi confirmed she was the one that turned off the generator, and they started quarrelling.
“Ngozi carried the generator and smashed on the ground and that was how the fight started... As they were fighting iron lady kept saying I go kill this woman o,” the eye witness explained, adding that neighbours who already knew Iron Lady were afraid to wade into the fight as they watched helplessly.
And iron lady made good her threat. Immediately she ran into her room, brought out a knife and stabbed Kemi. Before neighbours could react, Kemi slumped and died. It was at that instance the neighbours decided to call in the police, but before the police arrived the scene, Iron Lady fled to her room and wanted to escape through the window and when she couldn’t, she tried to commit suicide.
Iron Lady hurriedly swallowed a combination of relaxer and rat poison (otapiapia) but before these could have any effect on her, the police got to the scene and rushed her to the hospital where she was detoxicated and revived. According to the Lugbe Police Station, the case has been transferred to FCT Police Command for further investigation and prosecution.
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